[mairdie]

I admit I’m confused by the Finnish settlers description. I only knew of the settlement as Swedish. I had an 8th ggf who was Vice-Director of the colony 1658-64, after the Dutch took it over. Absolutely fascinating to see an interior so well preserved or rebuilt.

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[dirtboy]

Sweden controlled Finland at the time, the settlers were probably ethnic Finns.

[Viiksitimali]

Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process

https://youtu.be/_3J5wkJFJzE

[Viiksitimali]

“There are today at least 25 million descendants of the Swedes and Finns of the Delaware. At least half of these, perhaps more, have one or more Delaware Finns in their family tree. “
http://www.askovuorinen.fi/page30.php

[AnalogReigns]

I believe, in the 1600s Finland was ruled by the Swedes. Hence ethnically Finnish settlers could settle in a Swedish colony....

[AnalogReigns]

Here's a place, the Fairbank's House, one or two years older in Massachusetts. Besides Hopi Indian structures in the Southwest, these are the oldest buildings in the continental USA.

[Pelham]

They were called ‘Forest Finns’